Monday, May 9, 2011

A Different Type of Design

This is actually the first type of "design" I was interested in. I'd grown up playing SimCity, and was always proud when my cities flourished and turned into self-sufficient entities. And with news of high-speed rail service spreading across the country, I thought this topic should be explored a bit.

Urban design actually shares a lot of characteristics with graphic design. Think about it: a page layout has to flow; all parts need to work with each other to ensure a viewer gets from point A to point B. Similarly, a city, a neighborhood, or a block needs to work in the same way. A citizen needs to get to point B from point A on efficient roads, walkways, or public transit. This is really what design does, as it's been mentioned before: getting a person from point A to point B. It may be in an advertisement or it may be on a street grid. I suggest checking out the urban design link for more information on the topic.

10 comments:

Urban design and graphic design deal with frameworks and build connections, which I feel are important. Of course there is much more than that, and I totally agree with what you mentioned in your post.

The idea of urban design is a something that people don't really think about it, but the idea of designing an actual city would be amazing. I would love to design a city but I can't even begin to imagine all the other factors that you would have to take in to make it run properly.